Iron County register., 1887-07-07
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

For the last hundred years the
mayors of the little town of Calool den,
Germany, have all belonged 10 the
same family.
Chinese capitalists are said to be
taking away the business of the for
| eign banks at Foo-chow by lending
money at extraordinarily low rates of
| interest.
"A site of fifty acres has been taken
for the Gordon Memorial Boys Home
in London. A building will be put up
to accommodate 16O boys. and the cost
of maintaining the establishment will
be $50, 900 a year.
Mr.. Edwin Chadwick, president of
the British Association of Sanitary
Engineers. recently stated that sani-
tary measures applied to the army in
India had reduced the DEATH rate in
the military forces there from sixty
nine per thousand to thirteen per
thousand.
An old lady who died lately in
Vienna bequeaths her property, valued
at 80, 600 f1orins. to her nineteen-year-
old niece, on condition that the latter
would never wear clothes of any other
cut than those worn by her aunt. The
condition was accepted. detroit Free
Press.
Roman carts without springs and
the Cineinnatus plow are still used in
the Spanish district of Corrunna Meat
is rarely used by the peasant proprie-
tors except on great festive occasions,
and the common beverage is water,
tea and coffee being considered luxu-
ries for the rich.
The plea that you have no small
coin about you is not a valid excuse
with Mexican beggars. says CORES
pondent, for upon such hint any one
of the half-naked rascals will dive
under his dirty blanket, and. eroduc-
ing well-filled bag Of silver. courte-
ously offer to '.make change" for you.
The population in England and
Wales was enumerated on April 4,
1881. at 25, 974, 4S9. and on the hypothe-
sis that the rate of increase or decrease
that prevailed between the census of
1871 and that of 1881 was maintained,
the population in the middle of 1886
was estimated to be 27,57O, $50. This
means an increase of about 7.3 per
cent. in the five years.
-Extremly handsome apples and
pears of many choice varieties are now
imported to England from Australia.
In color, shape and size most of them
surpass the same English sorts. In
flavor, however, with few exceptions,
they are pronounced inferior to native
fruit and to apples and pears from this
country. American fruit has the ad-
vantage of much shorter sea journey
to Europe-only three thousand miles
as against fourteen thousand from Aus
tralia.-M y Ledger
Mr.. Coster, now at the head of the
diamond-cutting industry Of Amster-
dam, estimates that 1000. 900 carats of
diamonds are now cut yearly in that
city. In 1880 the amount was but 49,
600 carats. Another authority says
there are in Amsterdam 5000 skilled
splitters, cutters and p0lishers, we have
been working 10000 carats a week for
the last five years, or an average OF
1,O4O carats per annum; the last years
output being ], 500. 600 car ats.-Drake's s
Iracelers' Magazine.
In view of forthcoming trouble, all
the Paris Rothschilds have had pack
ing-cases made lined with red morocco
leather, each numbered and labeled,
and shaped to receive not only their
pictures and objects of art, but also
their precious eighteenth century fur
niture. These cases, numbering many
hundreds. are stored in the Rothschild
houses in convenient places, SO that at
81 moments notice the objects may be
packed, each in its box. and conveyed
to some place of security.
Three vessels-of-war have just
been added to the English navy: the
steel armor-plated turret-ship Sans
pareil, the torpedo cruiser Raocoon,
and the composite sloop Buzzard. The
Sanspareil is the biggest iron clad ever
launched in England. She is to carry
two one hundred and ten ton guns,
besides powerful subsidiary arma-
ment, and will be capable of a speed
of seventeen knots The estimated
cost of the vessel is eight hundred and
twenty-five thousand pounds ster-
ling. but by the time she is finally put
into commission the dockyard author
tiles will almost certainly, with all
their multitudinous alterations and
improvements. have brought her cost
up to full million sterling.
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